Amy Heckerling quotes:

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  • Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

  • When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

  • I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.

  • I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

  • Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

  • It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

  • I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

  • The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived the camps. Everyone in my grandparents' building had tattoos. I'd go shopping with my grandparents, and the butcher, the baker, everybody in the whole neighborhood had tattoos.

  • I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.

  • I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

  • I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.

  • I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

  • When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.

  • Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?

  • I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

  • I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

  • To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

  • Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

  • If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

  • You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

  • When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

  • The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.

  • The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.

  • Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.

  • A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

  • I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

  • I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

  • Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

  • Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

  • There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

  • Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

  • There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

  • Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

  • There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

  • I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.

  • With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

  • Some women are great, and you wouldn't have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you.

  • I don't think people know 'Nosfuratu.'

  • When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

  • A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

  • Bitterness is so ugly.

  • I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass when I was 14 I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

  • Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.

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